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diggers answered I've. Then
said he /" It's plain the increase re-i
sulting from the use Of these rakes
belongs to me. To your work.
else I'll send every one Of you
away and secure those who will
remember to be grateful and obey
the law of God.
There was quiet for a time at
the cove. The diggers toiled and
grew lean. The owner tdiled not
and waxed fat. By the side Of
their little huts Of boards he
caused to be created for himself
a mansion of marble, plate-glass
and frescoed walls. In another
place he built and in a princely
manner endowed a church. He
subscribed vast sums of money for
benevolent purposes. He equip
ped and sustained an educational
institution. The world knew him
and hailed him as an example Of
Christian charity. To crown all
he was praised and lauded for an
act which elevated him above all
else-he upheld the laws that en-
abled him to enjoy the fruit of the
labor of these diggers.
This ability of his to sustain and
uphold the law was developed in
this way: One day there came
among the diggers one who told
them that these clans they were
digging were by right their own;
that they should refuse to dig any
more clans for the man who
styled himself the God-appcinted
owner of them; that not only one
peck of clans was their rightful
wage but the whole two bushels
dug by each. When this was
made plain to the diggers they all
went up to the owners mansion
and throwing down their rakes
cgied out to him; Thou robber!
TEou robbcr of our toll and Just
TNagesw And the owner grew
afraid lest they dispossess him Of
his ease. He bethought him Of
cunning expedient. He cajoled
men to arm themselves and fight
for him against the diggers. He
found bands of mercenaries who
were willing to do this in consid-
Grafton of >large measure of
CLAIMS. They formed a Gordon
about the shores of the cove and
pushed back with bayonets the
diggers who had the temerity to
venture near. Others in the garb
OF the diggers passed among the
people until they had learned the
name of the man who spoke the
truth to these simple ones, the
diggers. Having learned his name
they Immediately brought him be-
fore magistrate, who was HIM
self dependent on the owner for
the clans he needed for his daily
subsistence. The truth-teller was
hanged. Those who had listen ed
to his voice were dispersed and de-
prived of the privilege of digging
any clans from the cove. Others
were found eager to take their
work for the meager dole.
EUGENE HoUGH.
LAWRENCE, Kansas.
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SALIENT POINTS
Cato" Reviews Some lmpor'
tant Facts In Connection
With the Men in Jail.
THEY BAYTLED FOR RIGHT /!
Shame on Worklngmen who Desert
Their Noblest Champions In
Their Hour OF Peril!
Editor Labor Enquirer.

Editor Labor Enquirer.
Here is a little incident which l
have not seen printed in any labor
paper as yet. 1t will tend to show
how determined the real conspira-
tors we're to implicate Engle in
the so-called conspiracy of the
Haymarket.
Some six months before the
fourth of May, 1886, man called
at the store of George Engle and
lefea mysterious looking package
there, saying he would call for it
Immediately. The parcel was
placed on a shelfunder the counter
where it was left for several weeks.
The owner. however, did not come
to claim hi; package, and it was
6nlly carried down and placed
under the sidewalk along with a
lot Of odds and ends belonging to
the family. After the arrest of
Mr.. Engle several detectives
searched the house (of course
without warrants or due process Of
law) and after turning everything
upside down, left without discov-
ering anything of a eliminating
character. A few days afterwards
however, party of eight detec-
tives made forcible entry into
the house. After once more Gre
ating havoc with everything in
the store one of them lead the
way to the storage place under
the sidewalk with the remark,
I'VE must find something here
In a few moments they reappear-
cd bearing the mysterious looking
machine, which was afterward in
troduced in court against Engle
as an 'infernal machine" to be
used in the destruction of the city.
~
But Lingg made bombs! Con-
ceded. Lingg had right to
make, sell and give away bombs
if he saw fit. He had as good a
right to make bombs as Krupp
has to make cannon, or as REM
ington, Colt and the Eetna Pow
der company have to make rifles,
pistols and dynamite. Hundreds
of thousands of people have been
slain by these deadly weapons,
why not indict and hang the man.
ufacturers for the "crime." There
was no law year and half ago
prohibiting Lingg from making
bombs; but they have passed one
since to it the case, and on this
law, presumably, the state" will
do its own bomb-making in the
future.
Yet there is not a particle of evil
dence to show that Lingg made
the bomb that was thrown at the
Haymarket; and the tstimony is
very clear that Lingg did not
know of the meeting at the Hay
market until III o'clock the same
night of the meeting. when return
ing from a walk with Scliger with
whom he boarded) he picked up
copy of that days issue of the
Ar6citty Zfitnng and for the first
time saw the advertisement calling
the Haymarket meeting. Dyna-
mite is terribly destructive in its
effects, as was proved by the ex-
periments of Captain Schaak and
Inspector Bonheld, and one of the
Lingg bombs exploded in the
midst of such large numbers Of
the police would surely have been
more deadly in its effects than
actually resulted. tits even doubt
ful that it was dynamite bomb
at all, but more likely one like
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Union Labor Meetings.

Following are dates and places
at which open air meetings will be
held by the Union Labor Party: I
Monday. November 7-Eigh-
teenth and Holiday.
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FRG'E SpEECH.
consti titutional Guarantees Of
Freedom u Speech Abol-
ished ~ \ Court.
4 MEMBER or CHlCAGOS BAR
Gives His Opinisn Of the Hlshhanded
Proceeding n the Case Of the
So-ealled Anarchists.

- lv-~ c~'o v ssso NJ.
| So-called Anarchists.
The Legal Advisey, paper as
its name indicates, devoted to the
discussion of subjects of interest
to the legal profession, is publish
ed in Chicago and is the author
lied medium for the publication
of legal notices in Cook county"
1t was established in 1861, con-,
sequentH is entitled to the respect
which age. should bring to men or
public journals.
In its its issue Of October IS is
published a communication from
a member of the Chicago bar up
on the highhanded proceeding of
the Illinois supreme court in the
case of the appeal by the labor ag-
itators in the Chicago Jail, 1t is
as follows:
"The history of the struggle for
freedom of speech and of assem-
blage is familiar to every student.
In England and in this country
the fight for the freedom of speech
and assemblage was carried on
for many years, and ended in
England in its establishment by
parliamentary action and judicial
decision. and in this eas6tty hy,
/ constitutional guarantees of the
right.
'The constitution of Illinois
provides as follows: Article II,
section q: Every person may
freely speak, write and publish on
all subjects, being responsible for
the abuse of that liberty Section
II: The people have the right to
assemble in peaceable manner
to consult for the common good,
to make known their opinions to
their representative, and to apply
for redress Of grievances
1T would seem that these con-
stitutional provisions are too plain
to need Interpretation; that the
liberty to freely speak, write and
publish on all subjects, means
that no person shall be prevented
from discussing any subject, or
urging any course of action, how
ever much it may be disapproved
by the authorities, even by the
police authorities. If by so doing
such person infringes any valid
law, or. violates any private right,
he is liable to subsequent arrest
and punishment. But the right of
expression must remain inviolate.
1t has been so decided by the
highest judicial authorities in this
country. So jealous have the
courts heretofore been of these
rights that they have held
that the publication even of a
false, injurious and malicious libel
cannot be judicially prevented.
though the publisher may be pun
Iished for it after the publication.
Thus the court of appeals of Mis-
souria in 1875 in the case of Life
Association of America VS.. Boo
CHER, reported in a Central Law
Journal page 40, decided that a
court of chancery could not pre-
vent the publication of libel.
The court said: 1t is hardly nee
essary to quote the familiar Ian
guage of our organic law. which
has always declared that every
person may freely speak, write
or print on any subject, be-
ing responsible for the abuse Of
that liberty. lfit be said that the
right to speak, write or print thus
secured to every one, cannot be
construed to mean a license to
wantonly injure. and that by the
jurisdiction claimed, tits only sus-
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! 's-- '7.ssv r.
pended until ii can be determined
jldicially whether the exercise of
Il u the particular case BE allow
able. our answer is that we have
no power to suspend that right
for ! moment o. for any purpose.
The sovereign power has forbid
den any instrumentality Of the
government it has instituted. to
limit or restrain this right, except
by the fear Of the penalty, civil Or
criminal, which may wait on its
abuse. The matter is
too plain for detailed illustration.
And the same doctrine has been
held in Illinois. But in the am
archist case the justices of the Ill
inois supreme court, have BY q
single stroke Of the pen, abolished
the dearly bought and sacred
rights Of liberty Of speech and as
semblage, and set at naught the
constitutional guarantees Of
those rights. They have thus
'.
vested in irresponsible policemen
the power which learned chancel-
lors have ever disclaimed and re-
fused to exercise; namely. the
power to prevent the exercise of
the right to assemble and freely
speak on any subject.
The police authorities may, for
sooth according to our Illinois SUI
preme court, determine whether
a man may speak publicly or not,
and on what subject he may speak
and what he shall say when he
does speak! And the injured
party may have his action for
damages too! And of what avail
is such an action when the occa-
sion for the speech has passed, or
when the officers are wholly with
out means to pay the judgment
to be obtained, or when the action.
lis to. be determined BY d court
that establishes such doctrines as
those held by the supreme courtf
And these justices assume that
the loss of the right of freedom of
speech and assemblage can be
compensated for in money. In
deed it would seem then that in
their view money is more desir-
able than liberty or justice or
even honor"
The Legal Advisey, commenting
on the above and some of the
points in the great case, uses the
following strong language, which
coming as it does from conserv-
ative legal journal is strong link
in the establishment of the chain
of the conspiracy to hang the la
Dor agitators. The Legal Advtsey
says:
"A subscriber sends US an ex-
tract from communication pre-
pared by prominent lawyer and
published not long ago ina lead
ing newspaper of this city''review-
ing some propositions of law con-
tanned in the so-called anarchist
case, recently affirmed in the llli-
nois supreme court; which we
publish in this issue for the bene-
fit of our numerous readers, as
their seems to have been on the
part of many misunderstanding
or misconception as to the real
points in this case. In other
words a misunderstanding as to
the real merits involved. That
the decision of this case has been
influenced by public opinion is no
longer denied. This was self-evi-
dent from the fact that the sensa-
tional newspapers of the city in
their attempt to show general
concurrence in the correctness OF
this decision by canvassing among
citizens as to their opinions, stu
diously avoided interrogating or
giving the opinion of lawyers in
this regard; but instead of this
consulted persons who were not
lawyers, and those of known pre-.
| f. IL q
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III Il It'.f| '|t ~ .I|f|l. ~ ~ I|| It
the bombs used in the war of the
rebellion. and filed with a less
highly explosive substance than
dynamite.
But Lingg had made bombs.
and in addition--whic was a far
graver offense in the eyes of his
persecutors-ha been very active
in stirring up discomfort among
his fellow-workmen.
-.
The prostitutes of the press de-
clare that honest labor has moth
ing in common with these men.
They are obliged to admit that
Fielden was a workingman, but
say that all the rest were loafers,
idlers and agitators living off the
toilers. Yet it was shown at the
trial that Lingg was carpenter
and memper of the union; that
Engle was painter and had but
recently worked at his trade; that
Fischer worked for daily wages
as a type-setter; and that Neebe
was a manufacturer of yeast. Par
sons, Spies and Schwab were
newspaper editors, the same pro-
fession by the way as the coward
ly ours who write of the boys as
"existing upon the misfortunes
and cupidity of their dupes-the
working people"
".
How conservative workingmen
can declare that they have nothing
in common with the condemned
anarchists cannot comprehend.
Neebe organized the bakers,
brewers and clerks, and through
his aid they secured concessions
from the bosses which they had
neither the brains nor the spirit
to obtain themselves.
Parsons was away for months at
a time organizing the coal miners
in Ohio and Pennsylvania and
teaching them to be self-reliant.
He had a commission also from
the Central Labor Union, bearing
the official seal Of the organiza-
ton, as an organizer.
Spies and Schwab were edi-
tors of workingmen's papers and
all had been instrumental in
working up the agitation for eight
hours.
Honest Sam Fielden, as his
friends delight to call him, had
spoken at workingmen's meetings
in Chicago and other places.
Every word spoken or written
by these men was for the benefit
of the workiny people. If not
then for whose benefit we're they1
Surely not for their own, for the
record shows that most of them
were very poor. And instead OF
bringing them reward and honors
their championship of labor has
brought them to the shadow OF
the gallows. Shame then upon
the workingmen who excuse their
lack of interest in the cause OF
these champions of human rights
on the ground of having nothing
in common with them. For years
they. fought your battles, under
going persecution. hatred and
downright suffering for your sakes
and now when their enemies and
your masters have them in the
tolls you repudiate them because
you have not brains to compre-
hend their ideas.
| sss
/ remember one evening after
our American Group meeting
Fielden and ! were walking along
toward home discussing the situ-
alton and the future of the move
ment. Finally he said to me:
"Has it ever occurred to you H
that some day these same fellows
whom we are now trying to lift
out of slavish bondage may hang
YOU and l to the lamp-posts2'
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|LABOR-SAVING MACHINERY.
How 1t Curses Instead Of Blessing
Mankind when Allowed as
. Monopoly.
For the ENQUIRER.
There was once upon a time
a man who travelled some leagues
across the country until he arriv-
ed at the seashore. He found the
locality unfrequented by man, the
water shallow and a great abun-
dance of clans. He soon learned
that by industry he could dig a
bushel of these CLANS between the
rising and the setting of the sun,
and that with economy he could
subsist the meanwhile on one peck.
Thus he labored and stored up
three pecks of clans each day
| till he had sufficient to live on
while building himself awheelbar-
row. This labor completed again
he toiled and dug till his barrow
was loaded when he set out for
his former haunts. Arriving there
he Immediately sold his clans and
returned to the cove where he
again loaded up and performed a
similar journey.
One day returning he found
two other men there evidently in
clined to do the same as he. Be-
ing averse to this and fearing to
make resistance he made use of
his superior intellectual power and
appealed to their superstitions.
He told them that the cove was
his personal property that a kind
Providence had directed his steps
hither, and it was manifest that
God intended tlFs spot of earth
and water with all its products to
be and remain forever his private
property to:use or withhold from
use. The two strangers being
simple, honest men said "Yea"
"But," said the owner, 81 don't
want you to starve right here on
my territory. If you will go to
work for me l will give you each
one peck of clans for every days
work you do" The strangers
were exceeding glad of this oppor-
tunity so kindly rendered to salts
fly their hunger. They eagerly ac-
cepted his offer, set to work with
will and each day there was add
ed to the..owner's stock of clans
one and a:half bushels, one peck
of which he ate and the remainder
he sold. Soon others hocked to
the cove and hired themselves to
the owner for the stipulated peck
of clans per diem. Some dug the
clans, some bore them to market
and all drew their daily sustenence
from the bounty of their divinely-
appointed and disinterested bene-
factor.
One day a thoughtful digger
went to the owner and told him
that with a rake the bushel Of
clans could be gathered in halt
the time consumed in digging
them with stick. Each digger
was at..once provided with rake
and the result was as predicted
Then was there great JOY among
the diggers at the cove. For"
said they "can we not dig with
these rakes the bushels of CLAIMS
before the sun has reached the
meridian7 Surely, we will now
have time for amusement and in
struction."
When the owner saw this he
was extremely vexed. "Have
not" he said always paid you
your peck of clams3" And the
diggers acknowledged twas even
so. did l not purchase these
rakes with my own clans that
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rubt, unb biit 70 angesriIfen! 2omm' /,
Iiebe 9Ieine, i'd brinee Si6 in elm tiib'
les 3immer, mo Su Did elm ipenig CTS
boIen fannii, ehe Su nit ben anbern
2inbern fpielitl sic nabm grneitinen
an Der 9ano unb fiibrte iie in bas
Saus, bur9 mebrere pra9tpoue So.
Ions in elm fleineres, aber bpbes @es
mad nit gef6loiIenen 9dben unb griis
ner Samafeinri9tung, in benz es 10
fiill, 10 bunteI unb frii1 mar, tpie in
einem Walb. 9lu9 on 9uft febIte es
ni1t In ben fiiblen Raun, benn auf
bem Slid Hanb elm @lasf6rb9en nit
ben berrli9fen 9oien.
grneftine mar ipra6los Dor Betuun'
berung iiber al bas S96ne, mas he
bier umgab. sic bate in ibrem 2eben
nod fein 10 prd9tiges 3immer geieben,
feline 70 refine atmofpbdre geatbmst.
Die Staatsrdtbin bieB fie, fid auf els
men ber griinen Oamafbipans lesen,
tpas fie iebo1 nur nod laugem Strdus
ben unb erff that, na9bem fie ibre faus
bigen @tiefeln ausgesogen bate, cbne
3u bebenfen, baB babur9 ibre serriie.
nen 6trimpfe 3u Sage famen, unb als
nun bic @taatsrdibin nit einem freunbs
li1en vS9lafe mobl, Iiebes 3ino!"
tpeggegangen unb fie allein mar, 6a
brad cine 6lutb neller gmpfinbunsen
iiber iie berein. Die 8itterfeit bes
eben grlebten. bic fdmerslibe Greube
iiber bic Site ber Staatsrdtbin, Der
3auber, ben pradt unb &ei6tbum auf
iebes Qinberber3 iiben, bas Maes ipogte
in benz tleinen 2opfe mir bur@eins
auber.-
(Gortletuus foIst.)
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800 8elpbmumg. 81
800

Die 2eier ber nGreien prefea tuerben
ii1 freuen, tpenn fie bic 9fa6ri9t Ders
nebmen, baB es ipenigifens cine tobts
bringenbe 2ranfbeit giebt, iuelbe bic
Wifenf1aft in allen ibren Stabien gu
beiIen berniag, unb bas III Der @atarrb.
San's @atarrb Cure 1T bas ein5ige Der
mebi3inii9en 8riiberi9aft befannte
6eilmittel. gatarrb 1T cine eonffitus
tionelIe Qrantbeit -unb erforbert besbalb
conftitutionelle 9eilmittel. @s wirb
innerli1 angetpanbt uub uirft bireft
auf bas Blut unb Die fliiifge Sberifd9e
bes Splfens. Oabur9 aerh6rt es ben
@runb ber 3rantbeit unb ifdrft ben
patienten, neil es bic 2oniiitution aufs
baut unb bic Natur in ibrer Nrbeit uns
terffhbt. Die gigent6iimer befBen elm
iol1es 3utrauen In bic beilenben @is
genf9aften, baB bieielben $100 offeris
rem fiir ieben Gan, In Dem es nibt beilt.
Man i6ide fiir 3eusniiie unter Der
Ibrefe: s. s. 6 gbenep & 9 o.,
Solebo, o.
S@ gu berfaufen Bel alIenMpotbetern
fiir Is gents.
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0etabr TIM Mussiac.

@enn Der appstit bersebt, unb Der g Dlaf
rubsIos uno unerquidenb piro, iii @efabr in,
sn,use. Die Serbauunssorpas peEu fe in
sinsm seIunosn 3uFanbs iino, berIansen nod
Habrung, uub bic aerben penn iie in sinent
seiunbsn uno rubiseu 3ufanbe finb, berrr.
fa9en benz Mtnf9en bes Nad!s feline llurube.
Gin StdrfunssmitteI, UNI tuirfiam gu iein,
iolIte nidt nur elm einfades 1litteI fein ben
sppetit su rei;en; ebsnfo menis reroen bic
Iersen 6ur9 elm bIobes 8srubisunss. oher
SdIafmittel setrdftist unb berubist. @as il
sinsm iaIdsn Sale n0tbis if, it cine NeSisin,
bic ben Masen fGrit, unb bic aiiimilatiOn Ssr
Iabruns bnrd ben Rorper bcforbert, woourd
bic 2erbsu, iopie aIls anberen sbsile bss a6r-
pers seIrafist merbsn. Oiefes iinb bic Grfole,
bon 8 oitetters Rasenbitters, cine
MlebiSin, beren Iuf feit in ber offentliden 0lsi.
nuns besriinbet 1T, uub uel&e ron aersten nc,
gen ibrsr itdrtenbsu antibiIioien uno anberen
Gissnfdaftsn empfobIen pirb. Gs ipirb :sit
bem bsfea GrfoIse sssen @s6ieIfsbsr, Rbeu,
matismus, S9pd6e Der sliersn unb Der @e.
bdrmuttsr unb anbere arautbsiten sebraudt
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afber. Gplpnel edabe 8

Q(6er, Colonel G@abe! Serr
2ouis S9abe giebt in Der Bunbess
bauptfabt Wafbinston ben Sentinel"
beraus, setpifermaBen elm beuti@es
Blatt, aber In ensIii9er Spra9e ers
i1einenb. Es iou bic 8ermittlerrole
atpif1en ber beuti9en unb englifden
preKe bieies 2anbes fpielen-intuietpeit
es biefe Mufgabe iebo9 erflllt, iff cine
anbere Grage. I'm bieien 3wed mirfs
lid su erfiilIen, miBte Der r6entinel"
Elm tpeniger einieitig bemotratifdes
parteiblatt iein, als es tn Wirtli4s
teit if.
sSn LETTER 3eit bat fi9 9err S9abe
einige leberfebunasbIiitben geleiltet, bic
gerabe3u f0ifIi1 limb. 90 beaei6nete
er fiir3lid irasao gtmas, iuomit er nibt
iibereinffimmte, als: foul enchants
ment~. 81 bas ni@t cine groBartige
lleberiebuns fur pfauIer 3auberAs Mau
erinnert ii9 babel an ben S9uiBer, Der
6errn @9abe fbon bOr ldngerer 3eit
paiiirte, aIs er bic Be3ei@nung Salons
paiiagiere nit saloon Passengers"
iiberfebte. Gins unierer We9ielbldtier
ertbeilt Gerrn G9abe ben 9atb, geles
gentIi9 bic betannte &ebensart: sDas
gebt tibers Bobnenlieb!" au ii6eriebeH
In vIt goes over the bean-song" ober
vBrat mir giner men Stor9A in Who
will fry me stork" ober enoli9 pWas
'beiBt mid ba@ in What bites me
there.
Das tudrs iaIisbIid aud ales foul
enchantment".
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= Maan tbeilt aus Nstp gort bonn s.
Gebruar nit: vgs berri9t bic aaeez
meine usberseusuns, baB fi9 Der grobe
Strife ber Gra9tnerlaber, 2oblenl9aufs
Ter unb ionftiger Safenarbeiter feinem
gnbe ndbert. Oie meiiten Der leBteren
geben ielbit su, baB Der Strife elm Gebls
f6Ias seipeien iei. Cine Insabl Der
Strifer ipollte tpieber aur Nrbeit auriids
febren, ailein man tpies fe ab, ba bic
pIdbe berIelben bereits bur9 anbere
Nrbeiter ausgefiillt maren.
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Git, alter @iiraer fprfd,t.

Wer. 8. I. Norris, elm alter 8ewobner bon
Rome, Ga.. fast, bab er beftia an aierenlsiSen
msbrere Sabre lang Su Ieiben bate nno sbenlo
brsi Sabre lang on ee;ema. 3u 3eiten fonnte
er gar ni9t seben unb bate bisl Seilmittel
erfoIslos beriudt, bis er aufing electric 9itters
40 sebrauden uub feline Sdnse nno Gabe NIT
Budlens Mrniea Salbe ein;ureiben. Sieie
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